Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Newbie Question: TeX-macro-global

[David Kastrup]

Bernt Guldbrandtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 
>> "Joel J. Adamson" <jadamson <at> partners.org> writes:
>> 
>> > When I hit the LaTeX button, I can format files when they're
>> > open/saved in the MiKTeX directory (or any subdirectory), but nowhere
>> > else;  I did it hierarchically saving the input file in
>> > C:\Miktex2.5\tex\latex\base\, then C:\Miktex2.5\tex\latex\, then
>> > C:\Miktex2.5\tex\, then C:\Miktex2.5\, then C:\, which is when it
>> > stopped working). 

>> > customize-group' `AUCTEX', but everything seems to be the same.
>> >
>> > Let me know what I"m missing or where I need to look in the manual.
>> 
>> Are the MikTeX binaries in your PATH variable?  Namely, can you open a
>> command line window, change to an arbitrary directory, and call
>> latex
>> on the command line without getting "Command not found" or similar?
>> 
>
> I see the exact same thing. After updating to MikTeX 2.5 running anything from
> XEmacs under AUCTeX fails with the following error message:
>
> Versions:
> ---------
> Windows XP2 fully updated
> XEmacs 21.4.19; January 2006
> MiKTeX 2.5 fully updated
> AUCTeX 11.83

Could both of you (assuming that both use XEmacs) check out the
current development snapshot of the XEmacs package at
<URL:http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/auctex/snapshots/ftp/auctex-20060921-b-pkg.tar.gz>?

This is supposed to work, including the use of preview-latex.  I
checked in some fixes in order to address the problems.

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Thanks,

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum